Make Windows XP Run Faster! - Comments Page 11

I enjoyed reading your article, but it avoided mentioning the elephant in our living rooms. Windows is a 20th century design attempting to run in a 21st century world. Microsoft's implementation of registry and folders is the base cause of sludge. It is an engine designed without any way to change the oil. In fact, their solution has been to make the oil filter increasingly difficult to find. Windows was once a very good OS. But a lack of genuine innovation has caught up to it and it is time for something new.

You said "The easiest thing is probably a System Restore to the day before you made the changes."

System restore is not possible since a lot has happened since I discovered this. Starting all services backup did NOT help either. Win installer does NOT work anymore. Now been busy for DAYS following instructions on a dozen sites with no luck. Reinstalled SP3 with no result. Links in excel do also NOT work anymore. This was a BAD idea.

EDITOR'S NOTE: "A lot has happened?" Sounds like all BAD stuff has happened. I still think System Restore will undo the mess. All you'll need to do is re-install any new software you've put on since that time.

I appreciate your articles. They are very helpful. Thank you!

FYI, I noticed you are advertising Google Starter Kit. I did some research on this company and it seems it is a huge scam. Not sure you were aware of this and thought you should know, as I'm sure you wouldn't want to be associated with a firm that scams people.

Keep up the good work.

I have a simple solution just reinstall xp! I did it and it just makes life so much easier! remember to backup your personal data to a external hard drive and let the installer do the rest. After instalation is complete make shure to get some antivirus and updates like the recipie states!

EDITOR'S NOTE: I should mention that re-installing XP could also require you to apply the SP2/SP3 service packs. Downloading and installing the service packs plus other security patches could take quite a few hours.

A good trick for the virtual memory is to set the size at twice the amount of ram you have installed. I have 2 gig so my swap file is set to 4092. Then set the size to custom and have the inital size and max size set to 4092. All the clusters are allocated when the new swap file is created so the file dosn't get defraged.

i use xubuntu on my imac g3 and it is slow. particularly because firefox eats up memory. i have only 256 megs on that machine. I have xp on another machine with 2 gigs of ram and it's actually much faster than xubuntu with 256megs of ram. I also have mac os x , which runs slow as well. it depends on your computer not the operating system. youclash.com

One program that dosE terrific job of cleaning and maintaining is IOBIT.COM. It more than doubled my internet speed and general systems speed but also more than halved the Win XP start up times on the free version. Mty main system is running 1000 gigabits of drives.

sorry,owe u an apology , it helped quiet a bit after all,thanks

I need help w/ fixing my PC. I got drawn in by one of Bob's sponsored ads for PC MightyMax 2009, thinking it's a free to try TRIAL program.

Oh...these guys want $30 just so you can BUY a "key" to fix the problems the TRIAL version finds--they want MORE for the FULL PURCHASE version!!!

OK--I understand (but don't condone) the market for PC maintenance...but why must we be shook down for "protection" from hackers--when hackers don't pay $$$ to harm us???

Bottom line: I'm ridding my PC of this PC MightyMax 2009! Steer clear of these grubbers!!

hay thanks loads, it helped loads. the peeps reading this should look in to products from piriform. there free and thay realy help, i would recomend "cCleaner", and "Defraggler". "recuva" is ok but if you are any good with computers then you wont need it as it restors files you have lost. hope this helps, good luck